After nearly two weeks of debate, 57 senators (44 Democrats and 13 Republicans) voted in favour of preserving the soft money ban if the Supreme Court rules other parts of the bill unconstitutional.
The activists, along with members of the media and curious bystanders, thronged the area in front of the Supreme Court building while police officers enforced traffic rules and discouraged people from blocking the sidewalk or the steps of the court.
But as different judges reach different answers -- and as some of those answers, I fear, create risks for our national security -- there remains a pressing need for Congress, working with the administration, to establish one set of rules that is both consistent with the Supreme Court's decision and recognizes the important national security and intelligence interests of the United States.
Indeed, the question presented in a majority of recent Supreme Court Takings Clause cases has involved the scope of those rules.
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The U.S. Supreme Court in 2006 modified the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to insure the ability to gain electronic discovery of messages.
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If the Supreme Court rules against Kirtsaeng and in favor of Wiley, consumers who sell goods on eBay or any secondary marketplace could face copyright infringement charges for any products made overseas.
Democrats, raising an issue they have pressed for years, asked if part of the problem was because groups organizing under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code have operated under unclear rules since the Supreme Court in 2010 opened the door for corporations and other groups to spend unlimited amounts to influence campaigns.
The Supreme Court, for example, rules on 15, 000 cases a year, of which 6, 000 concern individual pension appeals.
Employers and unions can and will contest many, if not all, these decisions until the United States Supreme Court whistles a timeout to call its own recess and definitively rules on the validity of the recess appointments.
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In one ruling Thursday, the Supreme Constitutional Court found that the rules governing January's parliamentary elections were invalid, triggering the dissolution of parliament.
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